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Berlin Berlin |
2009.
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Reconstructed ZONE
Paired objects collected from Berlin's doubled institutions; Staatsoper & Deutsche Oper, Fernsehturm & Funkturm, Zeiss - Grossplanetarium & Planetarium am Insulaner and Zoo & Tierpark.
Berlin has two television towers, two zoos, two planetariums and two national operas. There are dual, mirrored routines occurring simultaneously each day in the capital by people with the same job, unbeknownst to each other. Two lift attendants both press numbered buttons guiding tourists to the two restaurants, two zoo keepers clang closed two sets of metal gates at the same time each day.
The wall that divided the city indirectly multiplied its essential institutions. Now that the wall is gone, these duplicates remain working simultaneously, asking the residents of Berlin to choose between them, East or West? Fernsehturm or Funkturm?
Collected items included; Elephant Postcards, Loose Planetarium Bricks, Coat Hooks, Cafeteria Bread, Chewing Gum from Tourists, Opera Feathers, Doorstops, Tower Bolts, Sticks Chewed by Animals, Pretzels, Knots.